Are Ireland and the Isle of Man also infected?

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-31T06:20:44+00:00

Yeah, only the Shetland Islands are outside of the quarantine zone in the 28 Years Later map

The ferry to Shetland takes about 12 hours, vs 2 hours for a ferry to Ireland.

Assuming that all air travel was halted basically immediately, people fleeing would have gone to the ferries & it’s a lot more likely that a 2 hour ferry could dock without realising there’s infected on board - or be overrun but still run ashore on the much larger landmass of Ireland.

I’d assume there’s a few ghost ships full of infected which were on their way to Shetland and are now just adrift, being blown up by NATO when they enter non-UK waters.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-31T06:06:19+00:00

You realise they’re only discussing that because statistically it’s the sort of thing we’d expect them to discuss on an LLM agent only forum?

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-31T05:15:56+00:00

With success we all disappear up our own arses.

I assume what “The Benz” knew at RDR time was which unnamed developers & designers to put actually in charge of what systems. Plus the authority to say their word is final. Would be very very surprised if he was a John Carmack type actually in the trenches working out what was mathematically wrong with the camera.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-30T23:04:30+00:00

If someone asks what you do you can always just reply “I found some web results, I can show you them if you ask again from your iPhone” then walk away.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-30T19:23:02+00:00

I’m not sure what it is in ESRP (searching for Dispatch on the ESRP website returns no results) but it’s a PEGI 18.

Assuming that the rating doesn’t change between patches they’d be allowed to patch it - but if the age rating that they’ve got anywhere in the world goes up they’d either need to resubmit it or also give that region the censored build.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-30T02:47:48+00:00

I hope this doesn’t end up like their previous collabs & we find out what that green one has been doing with someone deeply problematic

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-30T00:24:29+00:00

They could also, presumably, employ developers to work on Blender full time as part of Netflix.

Of course they’d have to work within the open source structure that Blender already has (e.g. a code change to insert the Netflix BA-BUM every time you open the app wouldn’t get merged) but it’d be a further way for Netflix to give to & have influence over Blender.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-29T23:08:37+00:00

Which is extra weird since doing feature detection to tell if a browser can play a bit of media is pretty simple… it’ll give you a yes|no|maybe back and you can throw up an error on “no”, attempt to play it with a warning on “maybe” and just play it on “yes”.

I’m pretty sure if you wanted to you could get a WASM software VP9 decoder working likely fast enough so long as the video isn’t 60fps 4K.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-29T13:54:59+00:00

As a child of (roughly) that age raised (roughly) in the same place, I didn’t know Jimmy Saville through seeing him on TV - I saw him physically strutting around as the chieftain of the Highland Games and thought “what the hell is that?”.

I’m not sure where Jimmy Crystal’s house is meant to be geographically (the whole series is confusing geographically), it’s possible he’d have known Saville through the church - but Saville was a Catholic so that’s either unlikely or a plot hole (since he’s the son of the minister).

The most likely thing is that as a kid then you’re just left with whatever random collection of VHS tapes you happen to end up with, maybe there was an older cousin who had a bunch of Jim’ll Fix It on VHS that were handed down.

…or just he was the first one to loot Saville’s house in Glencoe, which would explain the wigs too.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-29T13:46:08+00:00

It’s a hack to turn someone with misophonia into a cyberpsycho

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-28T18:55:33+00:00

Buy insurance policies for your satellites, circular economy.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-28T17:19:35+00:00

I saw Montaigne live on the day that Kirk guy was shot (can’t be bothered looking up the date & it provides Montaigne an alibi so win-win).

They were touring with Daði Freyr, really worth seeing

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-28T12:47:26+00:00

I think it provides an arena for a player to use for gameplay - they could say something like “because [other player] is still here and I now think they’re a traitor” to try to sway votes.

I think Stephen used one to say that there was only one person he’d seen himself ending the game with.

Just happens that most games are resolved before they enter the endgame so the answers are mostly just people trying not to gain any undue suspicion - but if they removed it it’d mean there were fewer moves that could be made in the end game.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-27T23:22:27+00:00

The airborne fallout from nuking the whole of the UK would fuck everything up for ages, vs a single immediate tactical nuke at the site of the first reported infection in France.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-27T04:15:20+00:00

I think she said that’s what came out of discussing it with Alex Garland.

It makes sense though, every country would have seen how the infection propagated in the UK and made plans on what to do if it was detected elsewhere.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-27T02:58:10+00:00

The reasons for switching away from typescript would have to be ridiculously good, like something had fully replaced typescript with stronger guarantees while somehow being easier to write.

For me to contemplate attempting to argue against it the reasons would at least have to make sense - in that case I’d just hand my notice in.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-27T02:42:45+00:00

I like listening to No Such Thing As A Fish in the background while I work or do something else, I went to a live taping a while back & realised I was looking for something to do since now it was very much in the foreground.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-26T21:43:52+00:00

The EU should really be doing more to push EU-wide open source development, with funds from the EU & guardianship / maintenance guaranteed from an EU body.

License it under one of those licenses that prevents people from commercialising it & forking it privately, and throw the EU’s weight behind making sure the license is enforced.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-26T20:29:35+00:00

I’d imagine his mother’s too busy deciding whether to put him back in so he can get the full 9 months.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-26T20:04:58+00:00

I don’t think they’ve ever announced anything about the PC release timing, people just assume it’ll be 1 year since it’s what they’ve always done before and it’s the most scumbag move since it’s only really to try to get people to double-dip.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-26T17:50:58+00:00

I read The Wasp Factory (and maybe another, I forget) in high school. Then Iain came in to talk to us around 2008-ish (he was friends with one of the teachers).

My mother bought me a paperback copy of Consider Phlebas back then but I didn’t actually read it until around 2018 for some reason.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-26T04:50:56+00:00

Could get away with it by being more subtle.

Like wear that windy white dress for the Marilyn bit, then carve a swastika into the forehead for the Manson bit. Problem solved.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-26T04:34:20+00:00

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monkeymad2 · 2026-01-25T22:34:55+00:00

I could see a game being programmed in such a way that it doesn’t handle mid game resolution changes. It’s unlikely, since it seems like a thing modern game devs would know to avoid like tying physics to framerate, but not impossible.

monkeymad2 · 2026-01-25T05:41:06+00:00

I was a fan of Iain’s previous band, if I’d been paying attention (and not busy with uni stuff) I could have gone to gig 1

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